What do you judge about other people’s Christmas dinners?

[Talkingtomyhouseplants]

Lighthearted - we all know every other family apart from our own does it wrong!

Mine are:

• no pigs in blankets
• BOILED veg 🤮
• treating the Christmas cracker like a competition (we are are each person gets their own cracker prize family!)

I did not know this was a thing.

we have 27 for Christmas dinner this year, I’m totally suggesting this just to see the faces at the thought of the logistics 😂

I'm pleased to say that nobody has ever judged my Christmas dinners....I've never cooked one.

Yeah, my mum used to do the turkey on Christmas Eve. But to be fair it wasn't a big kitchen space so I can see why she did that.

People that have a yorkshire pudding (just about acceptable if they are eating beef)

Indeed, Cauliflower cheese is the elite side dish of the Christmas 🥘

Me neither. Late 60s and never done one. Not a veggie though

Second most important side dish, I’d just a person for not having a Yorkshire 😂

This is going to get me some hate but Yorkshire Pudding.
Yorkshire Pudding goes with roast beef and nothing else.
Yorkshire Pudding is cooked in one tin, not individual muffin things.
Roast Beef is for Boxing Day.
i am not from Yorkshire and am aware that I have absolutely no right to these opinions.

Also bisto, or any type of gravy granule. Gloopy, salty fake-tasting stuff poured over my dinner is going to ruin it.

Thank you! 100% on the yorkshire pudding.

Or Baked Alaska.

Mine is people who complain about what’s on the dinner. We had a thing a few years ago where a now ex of BILs complained that sweetcorn had “no place” on a Christmas dinner.

It’s not compulsory to eat it just because it’s there.
Two young kids asked if it could be included as it’s their absolute fave veg so why not?! Christmas dinner should be a plateful of enjoyable food for everyone, not a set menu imo.

We don’t have a starter. We still have the huge pot of soup that people can have some of whenever they want, but the vote to go straight to main was absolute. Puddings are also help yourself later as well. Some have theirs straight after dinner, most don’t.

I guess if it’s boiled veg and meat - it’s not a roast 🤷‍♀️

eat boiled veg or steamed veg, as long as I can have roast lamb or beef dinner I don’t care what you have

We have ours in the early evening (5ish), so we can go out for a stroll while it’s light. In midwinter, the best time of day to go outside is mid-morning/lunchtime.

We get cabin fever if we don’t get some air and stretch our legs. Especially on such a hectic, over-indulgent day.

Brunch at 10-11, walk, dinner at 5pm.

I think boiled veg is fine if it's good, we get such flavourful sprouts and carrots in our organic veg box that they taste amazing just boiled or steamed. Having said that my Christmas Day veg is braised red cabbage, roast potatoes and parsnips, cauliflower cheese, mashed (boiled) carrot and swede, microwaved peas so it's only the sprouts which are steamed. I don't do yorkies either, they are a beef only thing for me.

I don't judge anyone else's Christmas lunch, but if we're going to someone else's (rare these days) and they don't do braised red cabbage or bread sauce then I will bring some. I will also take clotted cream and brandy butter for the Christmas pudding if they don't usually have them, and some dessert wine.

Similar to Vichy Carrots, except they use water instead of carrot juice. https://www.google.com/goto?url=CAEShwEBxCJF17ttwpCSCuWT6VymzA3pUbt4QwZEKnlqKGM4aB-LXgX_HbLRa-jrGSOuX3l__lfplZAF9-d6PBkx5XyhX1i9A-CiycAqTqyHLPZtsBkGzyO4YgOb7BUWnrX65dJouL1Q71ljXciphZ3RWoWTK_RR8jjYkJWXDazcM1Rq-VB4pBJ2OEg

We have actually dropped the starter in very recent years, because appetites have reduced across the board and no hungry teens or anything like that.

I really would judge anyone who had toasties with their Christmas dinner!

I judge people who don’t have mash, and who think it makes them somehow superior. Particularly if they use the ridiculously OTT “Mash with Christmas dinner? Sacrilege!” type language I see on here.

Yorkshire pudding just takes up valuable plate and stomach space that could be allocated to extra potatoes or parsnips.

Some of them take up the whole oven so I feel bad for judging, I just feel like the turkey should be at its best on the day. My stepmum used to heat slices up in gravy on Christmas Day but it was still dry 🙈

Boiled vegetables. No cranberry sauce And mash. My mum complained about the lack of mash on her Christmas dinner last year. Truly bizarre behaviour.

You just balance them on the top 😊

Nope, definitely not, she loves hosting and that's why we've gone for so long.

On what planet is making gravy from scratch easier than putting granules in a jug and mixing with hot water?

It's not HARD to make gravy, but let's not pretend it's easier than using granules....

I don’t get ‘bread’ sauce so have never done/had it but do have leek in cheese sauce and fried leek for the adult kids